An Unusual Charge.
The unusual change of unlawfully holding communication with a 17-year-old girl, the inmate of a receiving home under the Child Welfare Department, was brought against Stanley Campbell Sycamore, married,, Waiuku, in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court on Saturday, a Press Association message reports. The defendant denied the charge,, and his counsel submitted that there' was nothing in the law preventing: Sycamore communicating with her, and that what he d.id was not unlawful. Fining Sycamore £2O, the magistrate. Mr C. R. Orr-V/alker, said that Sycamore had no right to communicate with the girl. “Any man of the world, can only come to one conclusion, that this man had ulterior motives. A married man of his age had only one thing in view. These girls have got to be watched and cared for.” Counsel moved for leave to appeal, and the magistrate said he would consader the matter' in chambers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1938, Page 6
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150An Unusual Charge. Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1938, Page 6
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